"If concern with poverty and human suffering were the collectivists' motive... " - Ayn Rand
"If concern with poverty and human suffering were the collectivists' motive, they would have become champions of capitalism long ago; they would have discovered that it is the only political system capable of producing abundance." - Ayn Rand
Yup. That's the part about the progressives that just makes no sense: their policies can only ever be short-term ones ending in meltdown because they are all counter-productive.
I'm sure some bullying kinda sadism is involved. Think of a buzzard lighting down on some poor suffering soul, spreading its wings and squawking, "Looki me! Lookit me! I'm so-o much better than this pathetic wretch!"
Back in the 70s a lady used that buzzard illustration to describe the mind set of vicious small town gossip.
It also works for fat cat collectivists aka "more than equal elite betters," who abuse to use people too.
somebody explained it to them, unlike the hostile reaction Ayn Rand got, and with people
trying to call her a "nut" , etc.